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On-Line Learning Series of Courses

http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/course.htm

Starting October 1st.

Introduction to the Internet and On-line Learning
How to Search the World Wide Web Level 1
Eudora Lite and Pro Level 1
Eudora Pro Level 3
Using Netscape Messenger Level 2
Using Netscape Messenger Level 4

Minimum system requirement, 386 SX, 8 Megs of Ram, enough hard
disk space to hold the programs, Internet Connection, 14.4 modem.
Course duration is two to three weeks and assignments should take
no more than 15 - 45 minutes per day to complete.
Cost is $5.00 to $15.00 per course.

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Get Back To Basics When Creating Your Site

http://www.internetday.com/archives/092498.html

Working with women in small business, and with work at home moms,
has proven to be quite a different kind of challenge. Bridging the
gap between the "road to success on the Internet", and the woman who
knits sweaters from her living room is like walking into the first
grade all over again. The Internet has it's own set of rules, it's
own guide-lines in which to follow, and to make a solid presence you
need to learn and apply the basics.

Daily. Many people coming on to the Internet for the first time
often times think that when they click that magic button, the world
will stand before them. When they see web population is not banging
down their cyber-door, discouragement and even panic can set in. I
will then have a work at home mom come to me and say they read about
meta tags, search engine placement, and doorway pages, and yet, they
may not have a sig file.

Women in smaller businesses ask about the pros and cons of bulk
e-mailing, but may not provide an order form on their site for their
customers. This is common of many netizens, regardless of gender. If
you blow onto the Internet, and build your house of straw, well, you
know that story.

Take the time to touch on, and improve on, the basics that will help
build a strong foundation for you. Spend as much time developing a
good reputation as you do submitting to classifieds- and you are
establishing long term success. Get involved with similar groups and
organizations, not to spurt about your business- but to get to know
the people. After you have developed relationships, and earned a
degree of respect out here, you will reap what you have sowed. Half
of my businesses are referrals alone. And that says more than a
classified.

Simple things like not answering your email in a timely fashion can
turn off a prospective client. And, above all, remember: Everything
you do, everything you say on the Internet counts. Each person you
come in contact with for whatever reason is a prospective party. Is
a sig file that important? Sure is- it's your business card, your
identity out here. And you never know where your email will end up-
could be that person who was looking for exactly what you sell.

But alas, due to a lack of sig file, they couldn't find your site.
You never know where your next sale will come from. The basics- get
back to them, so the rest of the world can get back to you!

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Also in this issue:

- EFF opposes new domain-name proposal
    A proposal released last week outlining the creation of a nonprofit
    company to assign and manage top-level Internet domain names does
    not protect the public's right to participate in the process and
    excessively limits the board of directors' authority, the Electronic
    Frontier Foundation charged Thursday.
- Senate weighs online privacy rules for tots
    WASHINGTON -- The privacy rights of children age 12 and under were
    the focus of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing today as legislators
    considered a bill that would require commercial World Wide Web site
    operators to get parental consent before receiving a child's E-mail
    or home address.
- Internet Part of Federal Election Promises
    [SYDNEY--September 24] As part of its electioneerings strategy, the
    incumbent Australian Liberal Coalition Government announced further
    funding for the provision of Internet points of presence (POP)
    within Australia to ensure access to Internet Service Providers at
    the cost of a local call.
- Death threats end plans to put 'Whois' on CD
    After death threats, denial-of-service attacks and hundreds of
    complaints, Domains On Disc Inc. has dropped plans to sell a CD
    version of the Whois database.
- Get Back To Basics When Creating Your Site
    Working with women in small business, and with work at home moms,
    has proven to be quite a different kind of challenge. Bridging the
    gap between the "road to success on the Internet", and the woman who
    knits sweaters from her living room is like walking into the first
    grade all over again.
- Number Of Children Online Double Last Year
    Saying that legislation is vital to "protect the privacy of our
    youngest consumers," Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert
    Pitofsky urged Congress on Wednesday to enact a bill to do just that.
- More Cheat Via Computer At US Varsity
    BLACKSBURG (Virginia) -- In a troubling reminder of technology's
    darker side, Virginia Tech, the state's largest university, has
    acknowledged that computer-aided cheating by students is growing
    rapidly.
- Somebody's got to pay for the Internet
    (IDG) -- Advocating the Pay-As-We-Go Internet (TM) is a dirty job,
    but somebody has to do it. And when I do, as I did here last week,
    disagreeable people throw back in my face how angry I am with the
    telephone monopolies, which meter telephone calls. Telopolies are
    giving network usage metering a bad name.
- New Lists and Journals
    * NEW: HomeSchool - HomeSchoolers Discussion
    * NEW: GenTalk1 - general discussion list
    * NEW: Meat Loaf - Discussions of Rock Star Meat Loaf



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